Word: gair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Suits. The suit against Owens-Illinois was the third antitrust case against the container industry in three months. The Justice Department also wants Continental Can Co. to dispose of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., the No. 2 U.S. glass-container maker, and Robert Gair Co., the No. 2 paper-container maker. Largely as a result of the mergers, Continental Can sales jumped from $666 million in 1955 to more than an estimated $1 billion in 1956, and the company passed its traditional rival, American Can Co., to become the No. 1 U.S. container maker...
...HOUSE OF GAIR (251 pp.)−Eric Linklafer−Harcourf, Brace...
...moor−English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish−is a scarred old playing field of English letters. It shows up again in Eric Linklater's entertaining new novel, The House of Gair, but only as a chilly device to drive the characters indoors. Indoors means, of course, the one and only house on the moor, with its hint of doomsday mysteries. But the real specialty of The House of Gair is light comedy, not heavy breathing...
Stranded far from town, Stephen Coryat, a writer, accepts a gracious offer to spend the night at the House of Gair, a thrifty Scottish version of Manderley, of Rebecca fame. His host turns out to be an Edwardian dandy of 77 named Hazeldon Crome, who had himself written a novel in the '90s called A Quiet Day in Old Cockaigne. Crome charms Stephen completely with his milk & whisky pick-me-ups, his billiard game, and his nostalgic reveries on the days of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley...
Stephen leaves Gair, but he cannot shake off a gnawing question. Why, he asks Crome on a second visit, did he stop writing after the critical success of Cockaigne? Nothing of the sort, confides Crome; he merely stopped publishing...